Walker student wins two scholarships

Giuseppe Rizzi, of Walker, has been awarded the National Merit Scholarship and the President’s Endowed Scholarship from Texas A&M University.

Rizzi was home-schooled for 12 years. He graduated with the Baton Rouge Holy Family Homeschoolers group on May 21 during a Mass and ceremony at St. Agnes Catholic Church, a news release said.

His curriculum included a dual-enrollment calculus II course at LSU and two satellite physics courses in cooperation with Clemson University, of South Carolina.

Rizzi will begin classes at Texas A&M this fall as a freshman honors student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the Dwight Look College of Engineering. He plans to become an electrical engineer.